Our Spoken INK special guests November and December

A
regular workshop session starting at 7 p.m. will be followed by the Spoken INK
reading at 8 p.m. Info: bwscafe@gmail.com

Bonnie Nish is Executive Director of Pandora’s Collective Outreach Society. Published worldwide, Bonnie’s first book of poetry Love and Bones was released by Karma Press in 2013. Bonnie has a Masters in Arts Education from Simon Fraser University. In 2015 she was nominated for the YWCA’s Women of Distinction Award in Arts and Culture. Bonnie will be returning to her PhD work in the near future.

Ali Denno is an aspiring poet who has been published on several online journals showcasing new writers. Her main focus is on mixing poetry and short film together and is working on her first short film script. She is currently studying Creative Writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

At our new venue: Wings Pub & Grill, 6879 Kingsway, Burnaby, 7 to 9:30 p.m. A regular workshop session starting at 7 p.m. will be followed by the Spoken INK reading at 8 p.m. Info: bwscafe@gmail.com

Raoul Fernandes has been writing poetry since childhood, and is involved in both online and offline writing communities. He completed the Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University in 2009. He was a finalist for the 2010 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, and winner of the 2010 Sakura Award at the Vancouver International Cherry Blossom Festival. His poem “After Lydia” was recently adapted into a short film. He lives and writes in Vancouver, BC.

Bren Simmers is the author of one previous book of poetry, Night Gears (Wolsak and Wynn, 2010). She is the winner of an Arc Poetry Magazine Poem of the Year Award, was a finalist for The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize and has been twice longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Alive at the Center: Contemporary Poems from the Pacific Northwest (Ooligan, 2013). She currently lives in Squamish, BC.